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T1 Quantification of myosin heavy chain isoform mRNA transcripts in the supraspinatus muscle of vertical clinger primates
A1 Potau, Josep Maria
A1 Artells, Rosa
A1 Muñoz, Carmen
A1 Arias Martorell, Júlia
A1 Bello Hellegouarch, Gaëlle
A1 Pérez Pérez, Alejandro
A1 Barbosa Cachorro, María Mercedes
A1 Pastor Vázquez, Juan Francisco
A1 Paz Fernández, Félix Jesús de
K1 Primates hominoideos
K1 Músculos
K1 Myosin heavy chain
K1 Supraspinatus
K1 Vertical clinging
K1 2401.01 Anatomía Animal
AB Vertical clinging is a specialized form of locomotion characteristic of the primate family Callitrichidae. Vertical clinging requires these pronograde primates to maintain a vertical posture, so the protraction of their forelimbs must resist gravity. Since pronograde primates usually move as horizontal quadrupeds, we hypothesized that the supraspinatus muscle of vertical clingers would present specific characteristics related to the functional requirements imposed on the shoulder area by vertical clinging. To test thishypothesis, we quantified by real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction the mRNAtranscripts of myosin heavy chain (MHC) isoforms in the supraspinatus muscle of 15 speciesof pronograde primates, including vertical clingers. Our results indicate that the supraspinatusof vertical clingers has a specific expression pattern of the MHC isoforms, with a low expression of the transcripts of the slow MHC-I isoform and a high expression of the transcripts of the fast MHC-II isoforms. We conclude that these differences can be related to the particular functional characteristics of the shoulder in vertical clingers, but also to other anatomical adaptations of these primates, such as their small body size.
PB BRILL
SN 0015-5713
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/74324
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/74324
LA eng
NO Folia Primatologica, Abril 2017, n. 88. p. 497-506.
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 22-abr-2025